Regulator Communication Support for Spectrum and Capacity Constraints

A northern European mobile operators engaged Northstream to draft a report to the Telecom Regulator highlighting the need to additional spectrum to meet the growing market demands and to stay in a competitive position.

Northstream based on its experience and expertise in the telecom space, developed a report by analysing existing spectrum assets owned by the operator, researched the current and future market demand, forecasted the data growth, and calculated the actual capacity of the MNO’s network during busy hours to identify capacity constraints during a 5 year period. The report helped the client describe the challenges in terms matching capacity demands in the network considering the current traffic growth experienced, and present a strong case towards the need for additional spectrum in the near future to the telecom regulator.

A mobile operator requested Northstream to support the spectrum valuation in preparation for an upcoming auction. Northstream expert developed a spectrum valuation model to estimate the impact of spectrum on the network cost (OPEX/CAPEX) covering various permutations of different scenarios such as future spectrum acquisition/license renewals in the coming decades, possible network sharing arrangements and […]Read more

Europe is going through re-farming and re-allocation of cellular spectrum as 2G licenses expire, also new mobile broadband spectrum is being issued in digital dividend and higher spectrum bands. A fixed/mobile operator on mainland Europe asked Northstream to support in the preparations for a mobile spectrum auction. Northstream provided support in re-validating the business opportunity […]Read more

As part of their strategy reassessment, the client invited Northstream to carry out a technical due diligence that would serve to validate the technical aspects of their business plan (BP). The objectives of the assignment were to appraise the client’s capability to deliver the goals set out in the BP by reviewing the client’s network […]Read more